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"We are here to activate progressive power": Netroots Nation 2026 opening keynote uplifts fierce, effective activism

Good evening and welcome back to our continuing coverage of Netroots Nation 2026 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 2006 and now celebrating twenty years, Netroots Nation is America’s largest annual gathering of progressive activists. NPI has been sending staff and special correspondents to the conference since its inception. Traditionally, the first Netroots plenary session is a Thursday…

#Netroots Nation

“Clutch time” in the struggle to keep the republic: Frederick Haynes headlines stirring NN26 Friday evening keynote

Good evening and welcome back to our continuing coverage of Netroots Nation 2026 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With thousands of progressive activists, organizers, elected officials and labor leaders gathered in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection, Friday evening’s keynote set an urgent tone for the days ahead. From the conference’s main stage, speakers framed the current moment…

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Second NN26 keynote celebrates return to Philadelphia with a call for radical community resistance, persistence, and joy

Good morning and welcome back to our continuing coverage of Netroots Nation 2026 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Netroots is making a powerful return to the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection this year, bringing together over 3,000 progressive organizers, activists, and leaders from across the United States. Set against the backdrop of a changing political landscape, this year’s…

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NPI, NPF unveil SearchTheLeft, an insightful new search engine for exploring and researching the progressive web

Today we’re excited to unveil the latest joint project developed by the Northwest Progressive Institute & Foundation: SearchTheLeft, a search engine for the progressive internet that specializes in surfacing great writing from the progressive, labor, and democratic-socialist web without wading through piles of digital muck. Creating this has been on our to-do list for many years, but the impetus…

#SearchTheLeft

At Netroots Nation 2026, Segann March makes the case for narrative as infrastructure Progressive organizations are rich in stories, but too often those stories stay siloed, inconsistent, or disconnected from real power. One of the first trainings at Netroots Nation 2026 focused on narrative as infrastructure: the systems, practices, and discipline required to turn messaging into durable persuasion....

#Netroots Nation #Partybuilding

The NPI team has arrived in Philadelphia and is ready to bring you three days of Netroots Nation 2026 coverage Founded twenty years ago, Netroots Nation is an annual gathering of progressive organizers and leaders that aims to foster collaboration and skill development in advancing all of the causes that we care about. A delegation from the NPI team will be reporting regularly on the goings-on, including through our special NPI@NN podcast series....

#Netroots Nation

Revered journalist Scott Pelley excoriates CBS management after his ouster

Revered journalist Scott Pelley excoriates CBS management after his ouster “The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable,” Pelley said late Tuesday just hours after being fired from CBS News after almost 40 years at the network. “The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.”

#Future of Journalism

California Top Two initial results: Becerra, Hilton likely to advance to general election for governor

Today was the final day of California’s Top Two election. Results are now rolling in from across the state, and some races are being called by mass media outlets. If you’re interested in following along, the Los Angeles Times has a liveblog. The big stories: Governor: Becerra, Hilton leading in most uncertain California governor’s race in years Lieutenant Governor: Democrat Ma and Republican…

#CA-11 #CA-48 #CA-Ballot #CA-Gov

Brian Heywood could become the man who financed WA’s first statewide vote backing an income tax in nearly a hundred years The right wing mega millionaire is betting that Washington voters will nix the state's recently levied million dollar earners tax, given an opportunity to repeal it with Initiative to the People 645 (IP26-645). Heywood speaks as though he simply can't lose. But he made a similar bet in the 2024 cycle that backfired spectacularly, with his money helping prove that progressive ideas like the capital gains tax funding the Education Legacy Trust, the Climate Commitment Act, and the WA Cares Fund were actually popular with voters....

#Permanent Defense #WA-Ballot

Americans are about to pay even more at the grocery store

Americans are about to pay even more at the grocery store The hit to U.S. household finances from higher grocery bills is set to intensify just ahead of the November midterm elections, Bloomberg reports.

#Cost of Living #Midterms Outlook

Book Review: The lie of the footprint in Auden Schendler’s "Terrible Beauty"

Since the inception of the environmental movement, we have been fed a steady diet of personal piety where meticulous accounting of our plastic sorting and carbon footprints will somehow absolve us of environmental sin. This also manages to instill a perpetual guilt. We carry this quiet shame into every grocery aisle, operating under the fiction that if we just count our moral points carefully…

#Books #Climate Crisis

Donald Trump's lawless and corrupt regime dealt three big defeats in federal court as May 2026 draws to a close

The rule of law still matters in America, and the Constitution is not a scrap of paper that wannabe authoritarians can ignore. That was the message that a trio of federal judges collectively delivered today as they dealt Donald Trump’s corrupt regime three big defeats in court, upholding the law in a series of victories for the American people. Their rulings won’t be the final word on any of…

#Accountable Leaders #Criminal Justice

Sound Transit Board adopts resolution formally scaling back 2016 ST3 system expansion plan and declaring Ballard Link unfunded

After an unusually long meeting that stretched well into the evening hours, Sound Transit’s eighteen member board of directors approved a resolution revising the parameters for implementing the voter-approved Phase III system expansion plan, known as ST3. The action comes in response to estimates that the cost to build, operate, and maintain ST3 as planned exceeds available revenue by $34.5…

#Transportation

Nippon Dynawave chemical vat catastrophe in Longview, Washington: Watch all of the media briefings

On Tuesday, May 26th, a chemical vat at the Nippon Dynawave pulp and paper mill in Longview catastrophically failed, killing as many as eleven people (there are two confirmed fatalities and nine individuals unrecovered) as well as injuring several more. It’s the deadliest industrial tragedy in Washington’s modern history. Below, we’re compiling videos of each of the media briefings that have…

#Disaster Recovery #Emergency Preparedness #Pollution

Rob McKenna's tall tales can't change Washington's fiscal reality: Apples-to-apples metrics show falling investment in state services To know Washington's real fiscal story, it's necessary to compare between different eras using an appropriate measurement.

#Budgeting #Fiscal Responsibility #Media Criticism #Point-by-Point Responses #Strong Commonwealth

One dead, nine injured, nine unaccounted for after chemical vat implosion at Nippon Dynawave Packaging facility in Longview

Disaster struck a troubled pulp and paper mill located in one of Washington’s biggest port communities this morning when a chemical vat imploded, killing at least one person and possibly several more, as well as injuring nine others. The vat contained white liquor, a hot mixture of water, sodium hydroxide (NaOH), and sodium sulfide (Na2S) that is used to convert wood into wood pulp. It ruptured…

#Disaster Recovery #Emergency Preparedness #Pollution

Book Review: Alice Lovejoy's debut tome Tales of Militant Chemistry reveals a lot about film, power, and industrial memory

It is that deep. And it is all connected. Reading Tales of Militant Chemistry felt less like moving through a book and more like being pulled through a web that has always existed beneath us, simultaneously the meme of the woman staring into the unknown with calculus symbols floating through space while the Twilight Zone theme plays through the speaker and Michael Scott from The Office screaming…

#Books #Film

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